Zazu actually isn’t involved at Healdsburg’s Bergamot Alley

Since opening New Years’ Eve in Healdsburg, Bergamot Alley has developed into quite the hipster wine shop/wine bar for the younger crowd. Picture clientele who appreciate novelties like the Wine Porn room, stocked with rare and ravishing wines worth ogling, plus amenities like live music and a store that stays open until 1 a.m. Monday through Saturday and until 10 p.m. on Sundays.

All that frolicking makes folks hungry. Yet despite recent mouthwatering reports by several media sources that Bergamot would be rolling out a menu catered in part by Zazu, the beloved Santa Rosa eatery of chef-owners John Stewart and Next Iron Chef contender Duskie Estes, Bergamot customers will still have to look elsewhere to get fed Zazu’s signature Black Pig bacon.

“I’ve seen the articles,” says Stewart, “but I don’t know anything about it. I know those guys, but there’s been no discussion that I know of.”

Those guys would be former flour + water sommelier Kevin Wardell and partner Sarah Johnson. Stewart added this his supporting Zazu chef is currently on vacation and does sometimes engage in talks for potential business opportunities, but noted that such plans certainly would have been run by him first.

At Bergamot, meanwhile, no one answers the phone, at least during Inside Scoop’s repeated calls this morning and afternoon. Dispatches go straight to voicemail.

Perhaps staff is in the back, working on porn? Either way, if any food — er, news — breaks, Scoop will provide an update.

And in the meantime, Stewart cheerfully reminds people with rumbling stomachs that his other restaurant, Bovolo, is mere steps away across the Healdsburg Plaza.